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Christopher Sardellicsardelli@thelancasternews.com
Should the requirements of the national health-care law be interpreted as a tax?
That’s one of many questions state lawmakers and government officials are debating now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled to uphold the country’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Reece Murphyrmurphy@thelancasternews.com
It’s been more than a week since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the nation is still talking about it.
In the weeks leading up to its decision, much speculation surrounded the court’s pending ruling, based largely on conservative justices’ harsh questioning of government attorneys during oral arguments in March.

County firefighters fought a hay barn fire in blistering heat on Rocky River Road in the Rich Hill community Saturday afternoon. Their massive, all-out effort kept the blaze from spreading to several nearby full turkey barns.

The fire, which was reported about 2:50 p.m. Saturday, was contained about 4:15 p.m.

However, it was by no means out then, according to a firefighter on the scene.

“It’s about 30 percent out,” the firefighter said on the emergency radio at the time.

Parents can expect to pay more for their children’s school lunches next year after the Lancaster County school board approved an increase in prices.

The approval came during the board’s meeting June 26, a meeting in which board members also approved first reading of policy revisions regarding student medication and first aid.

In a vote prompted by U.S. Department of Agriculture policy changes, the school board unanimously approved a 5-cent increase in elementary school lunches and a 10-cent increase for middle and high school lunches.

A day of tubing turned into a late-night water rescue June 23 as eight people were plucked from the fast-moving currents of the Catawba River.

The search for the group began shortly after 10 p.m. June 23, after a call came into 911 from a man who said he was stuck in the Catawba River, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office incident report.

The man told a dispatcher he was inner tubing from Sun City Carolina Lakes in Indian Land and could not make it out the water.